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    Schizophrenia is a severe psychological disorder characterized by disturbances in thought, perception, attention, motor activity, mood, and social withdrawal. Symptoms include positive symptoms like delusions and hallucinations, and negative symptoms like lack of emotional expression and motivation. There are three main types of schizophrenia - paranoid schizophrenia involving systematized delusions, disorganized schizophrenia with incoherent speech and behavior, and catatonic schizophrenia with motor impairment. Schizophrenia is explained through biological, psychological, and sociocultural perspectives, but it is likely caused by a combination of genetic vulnerability and environmental stressors affecting brain structure and function.

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    Schizophrenia is a severe psychological disorder characterized by disturbances in thought, perception, attention, motor activity, mood, and social withdrawal. Symptoms include positive symptoms like delusions and hallucinations, and negative symptoms like lack of emotional expression and motivation. There are three main types of schizophrenia - paranoid schizophrenia involving systematized delusions, disorganized schizophrenia with incoherent speech and behavior, and catatonic schizophrenia with motor impairment. Schizophrenia is explained through biological, psychological, and sociocultural perspectives, but it is likely caused by a combination of genetic vulnerability and environmental stressors affecting brain structure and function.

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    Schizophrenia is a severe psychological disorder characterized by disturbances in thought, perception, attention, motor activity, mood, and social withdrawal. Symptoms include positive symptoms like delusions and hallucinations, and negative symptoms like lack of emotional expression and motivation. There are three main types of schizophrenia - paranoid schizophrenia involving systematized delusions, disorganized schizophrenia with incoherent speech and behavior, and catatonic schizophrenia with motor impairment. Schizophrenia is explained through biological, psychological, and sociocultural perspectives, but it is likely caused by a combination of genetic vulnerability and environmental stressors affecting brain structure and function.

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    LO2 Schizophrenia

    Schizophrenia
    A severe psychological disorder that
    touches every aspect of a persons life
    Characterized by disturbances in thought
    and language, perception and attention,
    motor activity and mood, and by social
    withdrawal and absorption in daydreams
    or fantasy

    Delusions
    1. Delusions of Grandeur
    2. Delusions of Persecution
    3. Delusions of Reference

    Delusions of Grandeur
    A person may believe that he is a
    famous historical figure
    Grand, illogical plans for saving the
    world

    Delusions of Persecution
    May believe that they are sought
    by the Mafia, CIA, FBI, or some
    other group.

    Delusions of Reference
    A neutral event is believed to have
    a special and personal meaning.

    Schizophrenia
    Often include hallucinations (imagery in
    the absence of external stimulation that
    the person cannot distinguish from reality)
    Individuals may become wild or so slowed
    that the person is said to be in stupor
    People with this disorder tend to withdraw
    from social contacts, and become wrapped
    up in their own thoughts and fantasies

    Symptoms
    1. Positive Symptoms
    2. Negative Symptoms

    Positive Symptoms
    Excessive and sometimes bizarre
    symptoms
    Includes hallucinations, delusions and
    looseness of associations
    More likely to experience an abrupt onset
    of the disorder
    Tend to preserve their intellectual abilities

    Positive Symptoms
    Respond more favorably to antipsychotic
    medication
    May involve deficiency in the brain
    mechanisms

    Negative Symptoms
    Lack of emotional expression and
    motivation, loss of pleasure in activities,
    social withdrawal and poverty of speech
    Tend to experience a more gradual
    development of the disorder and severe
    intellectual impairments in attention,
    memory and so on

    Negative Symptoms
    Respond more poorly to antipsychotic
    drugs
    May reflect structural damage to the brain

    TYPES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
    1. Paranoid Schizophrenia
    2. Disorganized Schizophrenia
    3. Catatonic Schizophrenia

    Paranoid Schizophrenia
    Have systematized delusions and
    related auditory hallucinations
    Usually have delusions of grandeur
    and persecution
    May show agitation, confusion and
    fear, and may experience vivid
    hallucinations that are consistent
    with their delusions

    Disorganized Schizophrenia
    Show incoherence, loosening of
    associations, disorganized behavior,
    disorganized delusions, fragmentary
    delusions of hallucinations, and flat
    or highly inappropriate responses
    Extreme social impairment is
    common

    Catatonic Schizophrenia
    Show striking impairment in motor
    activity
    Characterized by slowing of activity
    into a stupor that may suddenly
    change into an agitated phase
    Waxy flexibility
    Mutism

    Explaining Schizophrenia
    1. Biological Perspective
    2. Psychological Perspective
    3. Sociocultural Perspective

    Biological Perspective
    Schizophrenia appears to be a brain
    disorder
    Studies have focused on the amount of
    gray matter in the brain, the size of
    ventricles (hollow spaces), activity levels in
    the brain, and brain chemistry

    Biological Perspective
    Major deficits in schizophrenia: problems
    in attention, working memory, abstract
    thinking and knowledge
    Many have smaller brains
    Larger ventricles in the brain
    Lower level activity in the frontal region of
    the brain

    Biological Perspective
    Differences in brain structure and functions
    are complications during pregnancy and
    birth, and birth during winter
    1 parent 10% chance
    2 parents 35% - 40%
    Twin studies 45% (MZ) and 17% (DZ)
    Increased concentrations of dopamine at the
    synapses in the brain and also large numbers
    of dopamine receptors

    Sociocultural Perspective
    Poor quality housing
    Treatment of schizophrenia: alleviation of

    poverty and other social ills


    Critics suggest that low socioeconomic
    status may be a result, rather than a cause,
    of schizophrenia
    Quality parenting

    Biopsychosocial Perspective
    Genetic factors create a predisposition
    toward or vulnerability to schizophrenia
    Complications of pregnancy and birth,
    stress, quality of parenting, and social
    conditions

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